Penguin Book Of Outer Space Exploration

John Logsdon

Beginning with rocket genius Wernher von Braun's vision for voyaging to Mars, and closing with Elon Musk's contemporary plan to get there, this volume delves into the NASA archive to trace the major and some of the most curious events in American space exploration. Includes accounts of the first American astronauts in space, the moon landings, the Challenger disaster and John Glenn's reflections on zero gravity.